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I have a 1969 Super Showman XL1000. It's not working and the Oxford 12" speakers need to be reconed. When it works it is a good sounding thumper. I need to get it going again. It was from the Seth Lover Fender history chapter and their first foray into SS amps. It has never been a trustworthy amp. It was a very short chapter.

The Super Showman was a great amp, albeit somewhat of an oddball: powered cabs that could be daisy-chained to suit the occasion, enough highs to scare away every dog within a three-mile radius and a preamp with fuzz, reverb, tremolo and an E-tuner. Mine had a huge 8x10 cab.
These guys had walls of them:

Oh yeah, and I'm forgetting that great onboard
Leslie-effect called Dimension IV, which consisted of an oil-filled can mounted inside the preamp head cab. This could also be bought as an outboard device:

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